The archiving of a list can't be disabled. Please read about our mission and purpose and try to understand that your archives are important to the community. They aren't a privacy risk – we obfuscate all email addresses to circumvent the SPAMmer-crawling-the-site problem.

If you feel that the information your subscribers post on the list shouldn't be publicly available in the archives, please consider the following:

Email isn't by itself a secure medium. Should you be using email at all for these things?

Anonymity can certainly be important, but this has nothing to do with archived emails.

If you wish to keep information private, perhaps FreeLists isn't the best fit for your group?

While we used to offer a means of setting a password on archives, this feature is now disabled as it was being used too widely. Keep in mind that FreeLists can't survive without open, free access.